Chia-Chia Lin > Quotes

“But the allergies. The language. The sidelong glances. It was a kind of violence, what my father had done. He had brought us to a place we didn’t belong, and taken us from a place we did. Now we yearned for all places and found peace in none.”
― Chia-Chia Lin, The Unpassing

“Here is a whale, I told myself, and then I wondered if it would die. It looked too big to die, too big to vanish during a sudden, silent creak of the world.”
― Chia-Chia Lin, The Unpassing